| Show a. FRANCHISE GIVEN INTERURBAN liNE Work on Road to Link Payson and Brigham City Will Start in Thirty Days EASTERN FIRM BEHIND ITA IT ITAI A AI J. J Co o. o Sign Contract to to Supply I PI Promoters On voters With S Su eilt F u d j Co work CONSTRUCTION s' s work work On on the pro pro- V posed Intel urban line between Salt SaltI I Lake ako find and Payson Pa son which I is t to connect ct I with the mb rt I line at it t Suit Lake LaKo and tho ho Eccles line at O Ogden den and complete complete com com- leto 1 nn an electric road front from rom Payson to Brigham ham City CIO is to commence within days davs This was Wag the announcement made yesterday h by promoters immediately utter ufler a 0 franchise ordinance had been lIeen IJas passed etl by bJ tho city commission grantInS' grantInS grantIng granting grant- grant Ing InS the company right ht of ot wa tva way over O HaltI Salt Halt I Luke uke streets It During the day a contract was wal sl signed ned b bi by the thc company compau with A A. J. J Orent Co o of y York and Salt Lake LaKo to finance th the lie project The rhe financiers agreed d to furnish a t 1 needed to carr carry carryon on construction of or time the le road The rO road ul will be bo from this end southward Continued on un Page 8 3 Column CJ GJ FRANCHISE FRANCHIS GIVEN INTERURBAN LINE Work on Road to Link Payson and Brigham City Will Start in Thirty Days Continued From Page 1 The Tho franchise for tor the company was finally whipped into shape and nd passed The vote was four tour In favor tavor of ot the measure to ono one against The negative vote was cast by tho the commissioner of finance who holds the tho city should have havo havethe havethe th the right ultimately to purchase the concern Amendments Are Arc Lout Lost The commissioner of ot waterworks at attempted at at- tempted to force torce an amendment to the franchise providing that the city cUy should have the right to purchase that portion of tho the system lying within the limits of the cit city within twenty five years ears This lost Then the commissioner commis attempted to put through an amendment Imposing a n. tax of ot 50 a a. year for tor every car operated within the city limits This too lost and the commissioner commissIoner com corn missioner then voted with the other three to grant the franchise Tho Tho route lot Lof the interurban line Is from the city limits north on First West street to the tho north side of ot North Temple street thence over tho the tracks of ot the tho U Utah lh Light Railroad company east cast on North Temple to West Temple Templo thence south on West Temple to Fourth South th thence west to a a. connection with the tho main line lIno at First West street No freight cars are arc permitted north of ot Third South and no more than three freight cars may bo be hauled within the tho city at ono time on any train except between 10 p. p m. m and 6 G a. a m. m No coal lime rock timber Umber or livestock except poultry may bo be placed on an any siding or turnout for tor the purpose of unloading north of ot Ninth South street Tho The company has hag sixty days to accept accept ac ac- ae- ae the franchise In writing and ninety ninety ninety nine nine- ty d days to commence work It Is provided provided pro pro- vided that tho the road must be bo completed completed com corn within tho the city limits in two years cars and completed to Provo Prove In three years cars carsNo No consideration of any sort sorl for tor the privileges granted are required of ot the company save that the company shall shaIl stand It Its share of tho paving of streets used by It The original provision for tor a tax to be paid the city Is left lett out The franchise runs until January 1 1962 |
